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CHICAGO, ILL, SATURDAY, MAY 27. 1922
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paHtcaas, Democrats, Catholics, Pro
testants, Single Taxers, Priests, infi
dels or anyone else can have their say
as leog as their language Is proper
aad responsibility is fixed.
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platform is hroad enongh for all, ever
darning the editorial right to speak
its .0W axnini -
Local conrinonications will receive
Attentions Write only on one side of
the paper.
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THE BROAD AX
'62tCSo. Elizabeth St, Chicago, IIL'
- Phone Wentworth 259
JULIUS F. TAYLOR
Editor and PttbEahcr
ZONING PACTS BOILED DOWN
Associate Editor
DR. M. A. MAJORS
V 4700 South State Street
i A Phone Drezel 1416
May 27, 1922
VoLXXVIL
No. 36
Catered as Second-Class Matter, Aug.
1$, 1902. at the Post Office at Chicago,
IH. Under Act of March 8. 1879.
MEMORIAL DAY
Memorial Day, May 30, Trill be ob
served -as a state-wide tribute to the
American war dead. Last Tuesday
Governor Small issued a proclama'
tion calling upon all communities of
the state to observe Memorial Day
with appropriate ceremonies. The
proclamation: "It is our great priv
ilege at an appointed time each year
to join in a national tribute of grati
tude and affection to our soldier and
sailor dead. The blue-clad heroes of
the Civil War, soldiers and sailors
of the war with Spain and men of the
great armies of the American Expe
ditionary Force lie in honored graves
at home and abroad. They gave their
services and their lives for a united
country, for humanity, for civilization.
We mourn the valiant dead and de
plore the great crista in our national
life which required of them the last
fall measure of devotion; but we have
a great national pride in their brav
ery and patriotism which have pre
served to us intact the heritage of
free institutions handed -down by our
fathers to be held as a sacred trust
for our children and their children.
Their gallant deeds' on land and sea
have ever -maintained unsullied the
honor of our great American nation.
Their hands have borne aloft and
raised high in the heavens our starry
banner of freedom as a symbol of
courage, purity and justice, and as
a promise of liberty to the oppressed
people of the earth."
"Whereas, the laws of Illinois pro-
Tide for the observance of the 30th
day of May as a holiday:
"Now, therefore, I, Len Small, gov
ernor of Jllinois, do hereby appoint
and designate Tuesday, the 30th day
of May, 1922, to be celebrated
throughout the state as Memorial
Day; and I ask the co-operation of
the people 61 Illinois with the Grand
Army of the Republic, the United
Spanish War Veterans, the American
Legion, the Veterans of Foreign
Wars and their allied organizations in
an appropriate observance of the day
by garlanding with flowers and deco
rating with flags the graves of sol
diers and sailors; and I further ask
that in all communities there be held
public memorial services and patriot
ic exercises in honor of our heroic
dead.
Zoning is not retroactive. Only
time can -wipe out the mistakes of
the past caused by neglecting to plan
the city's growth. ' . "
Zoning, to the joy of the child,'sub
stitutes green grass for the roofs and
cement paving. -
Zoning demonstrates in rapidly de
veloping areas the economic advan
tage of preserving open spaces for the
future.
Zoning works both ways; it con
serves the good in civic growth and
restrains the bad.
Zoning prevents the evils of con
gestion in the crowded old portions
of cities from projecting themselves
into the newer and more remote quar
ters as these are built up.
Zoning recognizes the evils of to
day and - avoids repeating them to
morrow. Zoning, in a 'city growing up with
out planning, affords a starting point
for the arrangement of terminals, for
the design of streets, for suitable
provision for recreation and for other
dements of city planning.
Until zoning came, the new parts
of a chy, under uniform building laws,
became as congested as the old; now
with graded requirements, the new
demonstrates to every observer that
the old crowded parts are not fit to
live in.
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EYESIGHT IS PRECIOUS
Who that hath lost his sight would
not give a million dollars, if he .had
so much money, to have his vision re
stored? And yet, much of the blind
ness in this country is due to ignor
ance and neglect.
Many people whose sight is poor
and who have ailing eyes neglect to
have them given proper medical at
tention until it is too late for medical
skill to save them from becoming
blind. It happens not infrequently
that eye trouble is not in the eye it
self, but is due to other ailments.
And again poor eyesight may be the
cause of illness in other parts of the
body. As is well known,, many head
aches are due to eyestrain and in all
such cases a physician or the oculist
should be consulted without delay.
But most important of all, perhaps,
is the proper care and conservation
of the eyes. This in brief means that
we should avoid overtaxing the eyes
and thai; we should not work, read or
study in a poor or improperly ar
ranged light. Another important
point to be remembered is that the
light, whether natural or artificial,
should not be bright, dazzling- or glar
ing. In fact too much light is as
harmful as too little.
Proper care bf the eyes means that
they should not be overtaxed; that
they should not be used in -a dim or
failing light, nor subjected to a con-J
tmuous glare, and that, when they be
come painful, or seem to be weak,
watery or inflamed, a skilled physi
cian should be consulted without delay.
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COL. WHITE JACK TIPPER, THE
LEADING LIGHT COLORED RE
PUBLICAN BOSS OF THE SECOND
WARD, AND HIS HIGHLY ACCOM
PUSHED WIFE, MRS. STELLA TIP
PER, HAVE BOTH BEEN SERVING
ON THE CITY HALL PAYROLL AT
THESAMETIME.
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HON. JOSEPH HIGGINS SMITH
One of the Head Wheel Horses of the City Council from the
14th Ward Who May Be Induced by His Many Friends to
Enter the Race for City Treasurer of Chicago in 1923.
There are mighty few colored men
in this city who are as smooth as Col.
White Jack Tipper, who is the light
colored Republican leader of the col
ored folks in the Second Ward.
Col. Tipper first started out about
eight or ten years ago to rake in a big
bunch of real easy money and to fool
or hoodwink the colored people by
throwing salt and black pepper in their
eyes.
At that time he was the prime
mover in starting a big grocery store
on State Street, near 36th. It was a
stock company affair and Col. Tipper
and his associates sold thousands of
dollars' worth of stock. After run
ning the grocery store for a short
time she closed down tighter than a
steel trap and the suckers who put
up ten dollars per share for their
stock came out at the small end of J onto two hundred dollars
HAMPTON WILL GRANT
LEGE DEGREES
COL-
What do you contribute to your
community that will help to make it
a desirable place in which to live?
To what extent do you help to make
and keep it clean, tidy and attractive
and do you co-operate with your
neighbors in .every movement that
has for its purpose, the betterment of
neighborhood conditions? Get in
touch with the spirit of the times and
do your part in making your com
munity a better place to live in this
year than it was last
LILY WHITES IN ORLANDO,
FLORIDA i
THE FORTY-FIRST ANNIVER
SARY EXERCISES OF THE
TUSKEGEE INSTITUTE, ALA
BAMA
The. writer has been honored with
an- invitation by the officials of the
Taskegee Institute, Alabama, to at
tend the Forty-first Anniversary exer
cises of that far famed institution
which began on Monday, May 21, and
caadsaed each lay np until Thursday
evening-, May 25.
Dr. Hamilton Holt of New York
Cky preached the commencement ser
a and President Jbha M. Gandy,
Vkgkia .Normal and Industrial Insti
gate, Petersburg, Va, ' delivered the
aasaal coaaeacemeat address.
MISS BAXTER VISITS FRIENDS
Miss AEee Baxter, 420 E. 48th
Pfeee, spest several days duriag the
Ipast -week with friends at Lake For-,-jfcjrt,
m as will as several .other Chi-'
eqpMK who attes4edl. two. days
nrmnnge sale at .thV First -Baptist
Cawcm. . jjj. !
Another attempt to form, a "Lilly
White" Republican Party in Florida is
being made here by the circulation -of
petitions, on which is printed a "Dec
laration of Principles." The new
party is to be known as the Inde
pendent Republican "Party of Florida.
The preamble to the "Declaration"
reads as follows:
"Whereas, the basic theory 'of our
government is predicated upon the
existence of two or more active politi
cal parties, each differing from the
other only in the ways and means for
securing the greatest good to the
greatest number of people, and
"Whereas, the present political con
ditions in Florida render it impossible
for the existing political parties to
function in the manner intended by
the framers of the Constitution, and
"Whereas, it is believed that these
conditions can be remedied through
the formation of an Independent Re
publican Party, which, while adhering
to the great principles of Republican
ism and conceding to all people their
full rights under the Constitution, -will
declare its unalterable opposition to
the election, or selection, of any per
son to public office,- or position of
pabKc trust, in the State of Florida;
who is cot a white American dtiren.
After these "whereases follows the
"therefore, that the undersigned .vot
ers associate .themselves to form, the
IsdepesdeHt Repabficaa,,.. Party, f of
Florida.-- ' --. -.
Hampton, Va. Hampton Institute
in its present organization offers pro
grams of studies in four schools of
normal and college grade and in two
schools of secondary grade.
For the completion of the Agricul
tural School standard, four-year col
lege course (thirty-six months).
Hampton Institute will grant the de
gree of bachelor of science in agri
cultural education and for the com
pletion of the Normal School stand
ard, four-year college course, it will
grant the degree of bachelor of arts
in education.
Appropriate diplomas will be award
ed to students who complete all other
courses.
Warren. K. Blodgett, director of the
Agricultural School, says: "The aim
of the college course is to give young
men an opportunity to develop within
themselves industry, intellectual pow
er, initiative, and ideals to fit them
selves to meet the problems of present-day
rural life. Today the teacher
of agriculture and the county farm-
demonstration agent have a strong in
fluence on the development of rural
life. This course aims to prepare a
man to become an agricultural teach
er, a rural school principal, or a coun
ty farm-demonstration agent. It also
offers a broad scientific and technical
education for one who wishes to farm
in a modern, progressive way.
"It is not a course in one special
branch of technical agriculture or sci
ence More than one-half of the work
is not in strictly agricultural sub
jects, but is in such subjects as Eng
lish and social science, including eco
nomics. The plan is to prepare agri
cultural teachers through a broad
acquaintance with the whole rural
life problem."
Director Blodgett and his associates
have arranged courses in six subject
groups English, social sciences, sci
ence, mathematics, physics and rural
engineering, agriculture and agricul
tural education.
The Agricultural School equipment
at Hampton Institute now includes
an agricultural library and study
room with more than 350 of the new
est reference books and a number of
scientific and farm magazines: the
Whipple Farm of 70 acres with mod
ern dairy barn, creamery, green
houses, horse barn, poultry plant, and
poultry-breeding station, and a horti
cultural department devoted to grow
ing vegetables and fruits; the Shell-
banks Farm of 830 acres, easily ac
cessible to agricultural classes, with a
dairy herd of ninety Holstcin and
Guernsey cows, two pure-bred bulls,
three silos, twenty-eight horses and
mules, tractors and modern farm
machinery, and over 150 pure-bred
Duroc-Jersey and Berkshire hogs.
PROMINENT MASONS MET AT
' ST. PAUL, MINN.
THE ANNUAL BALL' GIVEN BY
THE ELKS WAS LARGELY
ATTENDED
Monday evening the Elks of Chi-,
cago gave their annual ball at the
Eighth Regiment Armory, and it was
largely attended by the cr-am of Elk-
dom, both ladies and gentlemen. Hon.
George E. Wibecan of Brooklyn, X.
Y., Grand Exalted Ruler of the Elks
of the World, who delivered the main
The first of last week a special
Pullman sleeper filled with Scottish
Rite Masons left the C. & W. de
pot headed for St. Paul, Minn., to at
tend the annual session of the Su
preme Council of the Northern
Jurisdiction. Dr. Sumner A. Furniss
the M. P. S. G. Commander and other
officers were with the Chicago dele
gation of 22 members. They returned
Thursday morning and report a very
grand session. Twelve Sublime
Princes from Chicago were elevated
to the 33rd degree Many new reg
ulations were adopted. Western Con
sistory of Chicago is the largest Con
sistory in the Jurisdiction. A new
home is to be erected in Philadelphia,
Pa., in the near future; plans having
been perfected for the same at St.
Paul session. Western Consistory
will celebrate Pentecost day, June 4th
at one of the churches of this city,
and many of the new Inspectors Gen
erals will be seen for the first time
Sir Knight James E. Bish, who is
one of the biggest masons in the
United States, attended the sessions
of the Supreme Council of the North
ern Jurisdiction.
the horn. But some of the boys con
tend that in the final windup of the
big one hundred thousand dollar gro
cery store that Co. Tipper was wise
enough to feather his own nest
Not so long after that time, Col.
Tipper unsuccessfully engaged in the
tea and coffee business; then' hp
branched out in the real estate busi
ness, and later on he became one of
the high officials of the Douglas
League which spread out all over this
city and the money rolled into its
coffers for dues from its. thousands of
members residing yi all parts of this
city.
The latter part of February, or the
first of March, 1919, the old Eighth
Regiment of Illinois' returned home
to this city from the "battlefields of
France and as the parade in its honor
wended its way north on Michigan
Avenue, and while it was passing the
reviewing stand in front of the Chi
cago Art Institute, Col. White Jack
Tipper rushed to the front of the Col
ored Citizens Committee and as it
passed the reviewing stand he re
moved his hat and waved i; at Mayor
William Hale Thompson as much as
to say: "Behold me, for I tote the
votes of all the colored people in Chi
cago around in my big hip pocket."
Col. Tipper has for some years had
a hungry taste for easy money and
for a long time he has been on the
r-: tjii it
v-iiy iiati payron drawing down well
Per month
and practically doing nothing to earn
it, his salary coming out of the pock
ets of all the small taxpayers residing
in Chicago.
Co. Tipper has not been content to
pull in all the easy money he possibly
can from the small taxpayers but up
until recently Mrs. Stella Tipper, his
highly accomplished wife, has also
been engaged in signing her name to
the City Hall payroll and she has
been pulling down $1,320 per year in
dead easy money which has come out
of the pockets of the small white and
colored taxpayers.
HEALTH WORK IS THE THING
V. Pollard, V. N. & I. I.: Dr. S. A.
Brown, Petersburg; and M. T. Bailey,
president.
COLORED BOY, 15, TORTURED
AND BURNED BY GEORGIA -
address at the Metropolitan Commun
ity Church, Wendell Phillips High
School subject, "Race Adjustment
the Need of the Hour" was the
honored and distinguished guest of the
ball.
While in this city, Mr. Wibecan was
the house guest of Mr. and Mrs. 'Har
vey A. Watkins, 3657 South Michigan
Avenue
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Evidence of the real value of health
work is shown. by recent mortality
figures in the April bulletin of the
Metropolitan Life Insurance Com
pany. This company has more than
1,600,000 colored policy-holders in its
industrial department in almost every
state of the Union.
"In 1911, the mortality of colored
policy-holders was 17.5 per 1000. In
1921, the provisional death rate of
these insured Negroes had declined
to 13.2 per 1000, which represents a
drop of 25 per cent in this period."
This decline is most marked in the
death rate from tuberculosis,- pneu-'
monia, heart disease, Bright's disease,
malaria, typhoid fever, and pellagra.
This improvement is traceable to the
better economic status during the war
period, and to increased development
of health activities of public author
ities, social agencies, and also the in
surance companies managed by col
ored people
It should be remembered that in
surance policy-holders reach a certain
standard of health otherwise they
would have been rejected by the in
surance companies. Therefore, the
mortality figures are lower among
them than the normal. The changes
in rate? however, would naturally be
in the same direction in both nolicv-
non.nnl.Wl.nMm. ?. x LYNCHED
Davisboro, Ga. Charles Atkir
colored, one of four taken into cu-
here in connection with the killi. . '
Mrs. Elizabeth Kitchens, 20,
burned at the stake. The lyr fc
occurred at the scene of the rr.
and followed an alleged confession.
The boy was tortured over a slow fire
for fifteen minutes and then, shrieking
with pain, was questioned concerning
his accomplices. Atkins was said to
have implicated another colored boy,
but to have exonerated his own
brother.
Members of the mob. comorisinir
nearly 2,000 people, then raised the
body again, fastened it to a pine tree
with trace chains and relighted the
fire More than 200 shots were fired
into the charred body. Then the mob
started out on a search for the alleged
accomplice.
Mrs. Kitchens, who served as a rur
al mail carrier, was robbed and mur
dered about four miles from Davisboro.
holders and non-policy-holders, since
the same environmental influences are
at work on both. It is safe to assume
therefore that the general mortality
rate for the colored population has
declined in the ten year period.
FROM PETERSBURG, VIRGINIA
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HON. MICHAEL ZIMMER
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Petersburg, Va.---All Petersburg as
well as the surrounding counties in
Virginia are making great and elab
orate preparations for the coming of
the commencement exercises of the
various schools and institutions as
well as the annual and biennial meet
ings of the Alumni Associations of
the Institutions. Special preparations
are under way at the V. N. & I. I.
for the commencement exercises to be
held on Friday afternoon, June 9. The
address before the graduates will be
delivered by Dr. Robert R. Moton,
president of the Tuskeeee Normal &
Industrial Institute, Tuskegee, Ala.
The greatest meeting in the history
of the Alumni Association of the
school is to take place on June 8 and
y at tne scnooL M. T- Bailey of Chi
cago has served for 18 years as presi
dent of the association.
Among the many interesting fea
tures on the program will be the un
veiling of a bronze tablet by the asso-
citaion to the memory of the late
James Hugho Johnston, president, on
Thursday morning at 10:30.
Among those to speak before the
association meeting will be Mrs. Ora
Brown-Stokes of Richmond, Va.;
Honl Arthur G. Froe, recorder of
deeds, Washington, D. C: Hon. John
li UataeaL Justice of Peae Wa.fc.
IN TEXAS;
TOTAL IS 8 IN TWO WEEKS
Houston, Tex. Two colored men,
one 60 and the other 25 years old.
were lynched in Texas towns for at
tacks on young white girls, making
eight lynched for the crime in the last
two weeks in this state and Arkansas.
Mose Bozler, 60, was hansred by a
mob of 300 near Alleyton. Joe Win
ters was burned at the stake in the
court house yard at Conroe. while
thousands of persons, including women
and children, looked on. He admitted
assaulting a 14 year old girl.
LYNCH YOUTH IN GEORGIA;
AGED WOMAN HIS VICTIM
Macon, Ga. Jim Denson, 20, col
ored, convicted and sentenced to hang
on a charge of having attacked a 75-
year-old woman last January, was
taken from the jail at Irvington, Ga,
by a mob and lynched, according to
reports reaching here.
CHIPS
Mrs. David M. Manson, 4422 Vin-
cennes Avenue, continues to make
preparations to spend a pleasant ex
tended vacation at Idlewild, Mich,
this summer
Mrs. James H. Johnson, 3650
Prairie Avenue, is working very hard
to make .the, Memorial Tree. Celebra
tion on. Giles Avenue, south' of 35th
ington Courthouse, Ohio; Mrs. Susie Street, a huge successi
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